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Ralphie was average in many ways, but not in every
way. If he were average in every way, that would make him
exceptional, which Ralphie was not. He was average in an
average number of ways.

One bright morning, as Ralphie waited for his bus, one of the
ways in which he was not average was that he stood,
unaware, directly beneath a grand piano being hoisted to the
upper floor of an apartment building by some movers using a
rope and pulley. Ralphie didn't notice the sound of the
rope snapping suddenly, nor the shouts of warning coming from
above as the piano plummeted towards the place where he stood.

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